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15 paid iPhone apps on sale for free for a limited time

Updated Dec 19th, 2018 9:11PM EST
Best Free iPhone Apps

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Behold: our biggest list of paid iPhone and iPad apps on sale for free of the week. There were so many solid applications being discounted today that we had trouble narrowing things down, so we included a whopping 15 apps in today’s post. If you somehow still need even more choices, you’ll find a few additional options in yesterday’s post, where several premium apps are still on sale.

DON’T MISS: 8 reasons I still can’t leave the iPhone and switch to Android

These are paid iPhone and iPad apps that have been made available for free for a limited time by their developers. There is no way to tell how long they will be free. These sales could end an hour from now or a week from now — obviously, the only thing we can guarantee is that they were free at the time this post was written. If you click on a link and see a price listed next to an app instead of the word “get,” it is no longer free. The sale has ended. If you download the app, you will be charged.

Parker Planner

Normally $1.99.

#2 productivity app in the US! May 2013
#165 Overall in the US! May 2013

“A handy all-in-one organizational tool to make life easier.” — 148Apps

“It’s in the day view that everything comes together, literally.” — Appadvice

Welcome to the Parker Planner! Thank you for downloading this app, it’s the beginning of a beautiful relationship.

Our Plan: To make the best darn planning system for iPhone!

What you get:

Calendar with super fast two-tap entry. Quick and easy to-do list. Notes that pin on the day you make them. It’s the only calendar that has all three on one screen!

Parker Planners began in 2006 as a paper planner company. Our products started out as pocket-sized and that’s why it converted to iPhone so well!

*Your native iPhone calendar easily syncs with Google, Outlook, and many others. The Parker Planner will display any calendar that you have synced to your phone.

Download Parker Planner

Deep Whois

Normally $0.99.

Deep Whois is the most complete and advanced WHOIS app. The tool lets you lookup info in ALL WHOIS databases for ALL hostnames, domains, TLDs, web sites, IDNs, IP addresses (both IPv4 and IPv6), IP network ranges and autonomous systems (ASNs, ISP IDs).

Deep Whois works out of the box and finds ownership, country and more info about everything with no need to mess with complex options and server selection.

FEATURES
– WHOIS domains, IP addresses, ranges, IDNs and ASNs
– Supports ALL domain zones, TLDs, IDNs known to date
– Supports IPv4 and IPv6 addresses and networks
– Support ARIN, RIPE, APNIC, LACNIC, AFRINIC and referral servers
– Automatic selection of WHOIS servers
– Digging WHOIS records from referrals
– Result history for all lookups
– Group results into multiple histories
– E-mail WHOIS results

P.S. If you’d like to dig even more info about an IP, a web site or a Wi-Fi network, have a look at our allmighty Scany app.

Download Deep Whois

Citrus

Normally $0.99.

Turn your New Year’s resolutions into long lasting habits with Citrus!

Citrus is an innovative, new task manager. It motivates you with fun and engaging features such as points and streaks to help you form good habits and break bad ones. Citrus shows you a breakdown of your tasks and the distribution of your time to help you prioritize your day. It has a simple, beautiful, and intuitive design to hep you get stuff done.

-Earn points by completing tasks
-Build streaks by getting everything done each day
-View detailed stats on your productivity
-Customize the appearance of the app with different citrus colors

-Helpful pie charts make it easy to plan out your day
-Reschedule, set reminders, and auto-repeat for tasks
-View detailed stats on your productivity
-Customize the appearance of the app with different citrus colors

Enjoy a more productive life!

Download Citrus

TranslateSafari 2

Normally $4.99.

TranslateSafari 2 – Translate & Speak Extension for Safari
The app is a Safari extension that translates and speaks aloud the entire web page of Safari app.
A must have app to translate and speak aloud web pages of Safari.

Useful Features
● Translate the entire web page of Safari app
– Support both Bing Translator (40+ languages) and Google Translate (60+ languages) translation services
– Show both original web page and translation
– Display the original text for each translated sentence

● Speak aloud the entire web page of Safari app
– Speak 30+ languages
– Read all unread web pages automatically
– Swipe to control skipping sentences
– Highlight word by word for each speaking sentence
– Speak aloud the clicked web page
– Add favorite web pages with “Starred” to speak aloud later
– With funny bear and human face animations while speaking
– Support useful speaking repeat, pause, speed and pitch options

● Optimize speak functions (Pro)
– Background operation support: keep reading aloud web pages in the background while using another app
– Lock screen support: play, pause, skip a sentence, adjust playback volume and see the sentences list on the lock screen
– Headphone support: play, pause, adjust playback volume and detect headphone plugged and unplugged
Features
● A Safari extension that translates the entire web page
The app provides a Safari extension that translates the entire web page of Safari app.

● Supports both Bing Translator and Google Translate translation services
The app supports both Bing Translator (40+ languages) and Google Translate (60+ languages) translation services.
The service requires the internet connection while translating.

● Display the original text for each translated sentence
The app could display the original text while taping the translated sentence.
Show both original web page and translation. Switch between the translation and original web page (Google Translate, iPad).

● A Safari extension that speaks aloud the entire web page sentence by sentence
The app integrates the system text-to-speech engine, speaks aloud sentence by sentence without internet connecting.
Speak 30+ languages:
Arabic (Saudi Arabia), Chinese (China), Chinese (Cantonese), Chinese (Taiwan), Czech (Czech Republic), Danish (Denmark), Dutch (Belgium), Dutch (Netherlands), English (Australia), English (Ireland), English (South Africa), English (United Kingdom), English (United States), Finnish (Finland), French (Canada), French (France), German (Germany), Greek (Greece), Hebrew (Israel), Hindi (India), Hungarian (Hungary), Indonesian (Indonesia), Italian (Italy), Japanese (Japan), Korean (South Korea), Norwegian (Norway), Polish (Poland), Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Romanian (Romania), Russian (Russia), Slovak (Slovakia), Spanish (Mexico), Spanish (Spain), Swedish (Sweden), Thai (Thailand) and Turkish (Turkey).
The app supports one system language, you can make in-app purchases to buy extra languages.

● Add favorite web pages with “Starred”
Add favorite web pages with “Starred” to speak aloud later.
You can swipe to mark a starred item as read or unread, and flag or unflag a starred item.

● Read all unread web pages automatically
The app can read all unread starred web pages automatically.

● Swipe to control skipping sentences
You can skip a sentence or all below sentences while in Speak mode.

● Speak aloud the clicked web page
If you click the link on web page while in Speak mode, the app will read the clicked web page automatically.

● Support useful speaking options
Repeat times of the whole article, repeat times of each sentence, speaking pause seconds between sentences, speaking speed, speaking pitch and font size options.

● Speaking face animation

● Highlight words while speaking
The app will highlight word by word for each speaking sentence.

Note:
The app requires iOS 8 (or later).

Download TranslateSafari 2

City Cars Adventures

Normally $2.99.

City cars are going on a journey!

Choose your car and direction to start your adventure. Overcome obstacles by collecting magic items and unlock the unique talent of each vehicle.

Cars Adventures is a 3D app for small children and their parents! State-of-the-art technologies for your kids to control.

Unique features:

– 11 city cars: from a firetruck to a police car to ice cream and unicorn trucks!
– 4 unique worlds: beach, forest, factory and snow
– 11 diverse levels, each with their own secrets
– Cutting-edge technologies: dynamic shadows, alternation of day and night, realistic physics!
– A living city: instead of the typical menu, we’ve created a real city, where you can choose any car and embark on an adventure
– Count items on levels: your kids will automatically learn math by counting how many carrots or donuts the car consumes

Bubl is a series of new-generation educational apps. Our products foster the development of your child’s creative talents.

Check out our other apps:

Bubl Draw – creative toolbox for drawing with music.

Talking Faces by Bubl: Learn Professions and Emotions!

Bubl Ice Cream – world’s first musical ice cream!

Bubl ABC – a new way to learn the ABC: every letter is part of a song!

Bubl Tap – interactive exploratory space for children and parents.

Download City Cars Adventures

Convertizo 3

Normally $3.99.

Convertizo 3 is an accurate, simple and reliable unit converter for your iPhone and iPad that is built from the ground up to take advantage of the latest iOS enhancements including Slide Over and Split Screen multitasking.

Convertizo 3 automatically imports the latest exchange rates so your currency conversions are always up to date. 100s of units are available, with more added on request and unlike other converters, also includes both metric (US) and imperial units.

New to Convertizo 3:

• Support for Slide Over and Split Screen multi-tasking.
• Support for Portrait and Landscape orientations on all devices.
• Automatically stores recent conversions for fast access.
• New themes for a more contemporary look.

Categories are:

• Angle – Degrees, Gradians, Mils, Radians.

• Area – Acres, Centimeters², Feet², Hectares, Inches², Kilometers², Meters², Miles², Millimeters², Perches, Roods, Yards².

• Currency – Albanian Lek, Argentine Peso, Armenian Dram, Australian Dollar, Barbadian Dollar, Bahraini Dinar, Bangladeshi Taka, Bolivian Boliviano, Bosnian Marka, Brazilian Real, British Pound, Canadian Dollar, Chilean Peso, Chinese Yuan, Colombian Peso, Copper Pounds, Croatian Kuna, Danish Krone, Egyptian Pound, Euro, Gold Ounce, Honduras Lempira, Hong Kong Dollar, Hungarian Forint, Icelandic Krona, Indian Rupee, Indonesian Rupiah, Iranian Rial, Iraqi Dinar, Israeli Sheqel, Japanese Yen, Jordanian Dinar, Kenyan Shilling, Kuwaiti Dinar, Lebanese Pound, Malaysian Ringgit, Mexican Peso, Moroccan Dirham, Namibian Dollar, Nepalese Rupee, New Zealand Dollar, Nigerian Naira, Norwegian Krone, Omani Rial, Pakistani Rupee, Palladium Ounce, Peruvian New Sol, Philippine Peso, Platinum Ounce, Polish Zloty, Qatari Riyal, Romanian Leu, Russian Ruble, Saudi Riyal, Seychelles Rupee, Silver Ounce, Singapore Dollar, South African Rand, South Korean Won, Sri Lankan Rupee, Swedish Krona, Swiss Franc, Taiwan Dollar, Tanzanian Shilling, Thai Baht, Tunisian Dinar, Turkish Lira, UAE Dirham, Ukrainian Hryvnia, United States Dollar, Uruguayan Peso, Vietnamese Dng, Yemen Riyal.

• Data – Bit, Byte, Gibibyte, Gigabit, Gigabyte, Kibibyte, Kilobit, Kilobyte, Mebibyte, Megabit, Megabyte, Tebibyte, Terabit, Terabyte.

• Energy – British Thermal Units, Calories, Ergs, Foot-Pounds, Inch-Pounds, Joules, Kilogram Calories, Kilogram Meters, Kilowatt Hours, Newton Meters, Watt Hours.

• Flow – Feet³/Min, Feet³/Sec, Gallon/Day (US), Gallon/Hour (US), Gallon/Minute (US), Gallon Second (US), Gallon/Day (Imperial), Gallon/Hour (Imperial), Gallon/Minute (Imperial), Gallon/Second (Imperial), Liter/Second, Liter/Minute, Liter/Hour, Meter³/Hour, Meter³/Minute, Meter³/Second, Yard³/Second.

• Length – Centimeters, Chains, Feet, Furlongs, Inches, Kilometers, Links, Meters, Miles, Millimeters, Nautical Miles, Yards.

• Power – British Thermal Units/Hour. British Thermal Units/Minute, Foot-Pounds/Minute, Foot-Pounds/Second, Horsepower, Kilowatts, Watts.

• Pressure – Atmospheres, Bars, Kilograms/Meter², Millibars, Pascals, Pounds/Foot², Pounds/Inch², cm/Mercury, in/Mercury, in/Water.

• Speed – Feet/Minute, Feet/Second, Kilometers/Hour, Kilometers/Minute, Knots, Meters/Second, Miles/Hour, Miles/Minute.

• Temperature – Degrees Celsius, Degrees Fahrenheit, Kelvin.

• Time – Days, Hours, Microseconds, Milliseconds, Minutes, Months (Average), Nanoseconds, Seconds, Weeks, Years.

• Volume – Centimeters³, Cups, Drams (Imperial), Drams (US), Feet³, Fluid Ounces (Imperial), Fluid Ounces (US), Gallons (Imperial), Gallons (US), Inches³, Litres, Meters³, Millilitres, Pints (Imperial), Pints (US), Quarts (Imperial), Quarts (US), Tablespoons (Imperial), Tablespoons (US), Teaspoons (Imperial), Teaspoons (US).

• Weight – Carats, Grains, Grams, Kilograms, Milligrams, Ounces, Pounds, Stones, Tons (Long), Tons (Metric), Tons (Short), Troy Ounces.

Download Convertizo 3

File Manager

Normally $1.99.

FUNCTIONS:
– Supports Microsoft Office, Excel, Powerpoint
– Built-in search feature
– Share files by email, bluetooth and Facebook.
and much more..
– Integrated PDF Reader

Download File Manager

Balance

Normally $0.99.

Balance is a personal finance software that exists on the device you take with you everywhere … your iPhone. With an elegant interface and intuitive design, Balance will help you and your family make managing personal finances a breeze.

Balance helps you easily track your checking and credit card spending. It allows you to categorize expenses, set and analyze budgets in real-time… plus sync everything across devices so that all users have the same financial picture from which to spend smartly.

KEEP ON TOP OF YOUR SPENDING
You can easily input and manage your accounts. Switching between accounts is as easy as a swipe of the finger.

• Create multiple accounts to enter spending against
• Track spending based on categories
• Reconcile spending to confirm accurate balances
• Never forget a transaction by easily setting up recurring transactions
• Use GPS to look up the names of payees- Don’t wast time typing
• Easily pull up previous payees with saved category recall
• Easily duplicate any transaction
• EASY TO USE

BUDGET MANAGEMENT
Stay in control and monitor your spending with the help of Balance’s budget feature! Plan out your budgets and enter them in Balance. Each time you make a purchase, your budgets will be adjusted in real-time, allowing you to manage your spending and make smart financial decisions.

• Unlimited custom budgets
• Assign budgets with multiple tracking categories
BALANCE SYNC®
• Multi User Sync – BRAND NEW SYNC ENGINE
• Great for tracking spending between couples- Help get your house on the same financial page
• Syncs across multiple devices
• Works over cellular and wifi
• Receive notifications of spending on accounts by users. Balance will show an app badge icon to let you know your financial status has changed and to check Balance before making your next purchase
• Keep your account balances in sync in order to have a complete and accurate financial picture
** In-App Purchase Required **
RECURRING TRANSACTIONS
• Enter your daily, weekly, or monthly bills and have Balance memorize them for automatic posting. Never forget what bills you have coming out of your checking.
• Use the forecasting based on recurring transactions feature. **coming soon**

Other Key features:
• Password protection
• Modern design
• Quality customer service
• Quick transaction search
• Available for use with any currency or multiple currencies.
• Restore and sync via Balance SYNC®

Download Balance

Piloteer

Normally $1.99.

In Piloteer, a whimsical and serenely challenging physics-based game about learning to fly, a renowned inventor is determined to overcome the stigma associated with flying a jetpack and convince the world that jetpacks should be revered by all.

Blending elements of both physics and trick-based games, players will need to maneuver their state-of-the-art jetpack through the skies while completing a myriad of increasingly difficult missions to change public perceptions.

Players will find themselves immersed in a wholly integrated physics simulation, making the beautiful world around them feel dynamic, unpredictable, and alive.

Ridiculous failure is imminent in Piloteer, making the accomplishments along the way feel all the more rewarding. Put on your jetpack and take to the skies!

FEATURES
• Increasingly challenging gameplay with sixty different missions
• Three beautiful environments to fly around in
• Career and Free Fly modes
• Custom-composed, serene piano score
• Silly and ridiculous physics-based ragdoll effects
• Universal support
• GameCenter achievements
• Share replays and screenshots via Facebook, Email, or Twitter

Download Piloteer

Alert5

Normally $6.99.

Instantly alert up to five people from your contacts list with a map of your exact location when you need urgent assistance.
These could be friends, family or work colleagues who would react accordingly.

Features:
– Send an alert to your chosen emergency contacts at the touch of a button.
– Set an alert that will be automatically sent after a given amount of time – unless you stop it.
– Set an alert that will be automatically sent if you move outside of a given radius from your starting position.
– Combine the two – have an alert that will trigger if it either runs out of time or you move out of the area.

This app requires a subscription to use the alert service.
It’s a 12 month non-renewing subscription, so once it has ended, you’ll need to renew it before you can send more alerts.

During an alert, your location is required so that if the alert is triggered, we are able to tell your emergency contacts where you are. This may require access to your location services in the background. Please note that continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.

Download Alert5

Note-Ify

Normally $0.99.

Key features:
– FOLDERS – for easy grouping of notes
– ICLOUD-SYNC – Your notes are available on the iPhone, iPad, Mac OS X *
– COLORS – if you want to highlight the different types of notes just mark Important notes as red, Affairs – as green (for example)
– Favorite Notes – select and group important to you notes
– PASSWORD on a separate note – you can lock notes with password that contain confidential information (passwords, card numbers, love letters ;-))
– MAIL-TO-SELF – fast “one-click” sending of notes to the selected email-address, don’t waste your time on typing your email. Just click on the button and note is in your mailbox
– SKINS, FONTS, COLORS – configure the application so as you want
– PAY ONLY ONCE – no In-App Purchases, no ads

= PRESS ABOUT US =
APPADVICE.COM:”This application provides you with an elegant and easy way to keep your thoughts “

APPPIPE: “Simple, efficient and beautiful, FNotes might just be the best iOS notes app you’ve never heard of”

APPSAD: “Note-Ify – minimalistic replacing to standard notes”

APPLEDIGGER: «Note-ify – this is the best alternative to the standard notes”

APPLENEWS: “Note-Ify – a new look at the minimalist notes that fit perfectly into the new design of the Apple”

YABLOCHNO.COM: «Note-Ify – a new look at familiar application notes … Note-Ify is quality and useful … synchronization and customization of appearance make it a viable alternative to the standard” Notes “.

APPLEMAGAZINE.COM: “… application in its current form is certainly the easiest way to create notes, and will make a great addition to your performance”

APPPICKER.COM: «Note-Ify features a very basic interface, and I actually prefer Productivity apps of this kind which keep things nice and simple. I definitely think the streamlined layout is a huge benefit for busy bodies like you and I!»

APPPICKER.COM: «I’ve used a fair few apps that are similar to Note-Ify in that they attempt to keep things simple and streamlined. Some developers manage to pull it off, while others fail miserably, and I would say that Note-Ify Notes definitely falls into the former category, with a fantastic minimalist interface and some of the smoothest overall functions you’ll ever see»

Download Note-Ify

My Car Monitor

Normally $1.99.

Created by motorist for motorists. I’ve always appreciated my cars and took care of them, because my life and life of my family depends on technical condition of my car. That is why I created this app, it helps me and will help you to keep track of your car’s mileage automatically, calculate time of maintenance, and keep record of expenses. You can also send SOS signal in 10km radius in case of accidents or emergency. This app will be constantly updated according to your comments and tips, that you can send to freshstudio15@gmail. And please rate us if you like our app, so we won’t send you annoying notifications=)
A note on battery.
We’ve developed MyCarMonitor as power efficient as possible, but as with all apps of this type, please note that continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.
!!!

Download My Car Monitor

Choon

Normally $0.99.

Choon is an alternative audio player. It enhances your control over the library by providing clean interface and gestures.

– Add songs on the go. Just swipe right the song, album or even playlist to play it next
– Cue sheet support. Download cue files via iTunes or Safari to manage your podcasts or mixes
– Quick playlists
– Background LastFM scrobbling
– Color scheme based on the artwork of now playing track
– Quick access to current playing artist or album
– Customize fonts
– Search over all your music library
– Rate your tracks
– Compatible with iTunes Match
– All metadata like play counts and track ratings is synchronised. Available filters are Playlists, Songs, Albums, Artists and Podcasts.

Download Choon

Free Music Play

Normally $2.99.

Search, Listen unlimited free music from Free Music to your iPhone/iPod/iPad. Millions of free songs, DJ sets, remixes and live concerts.

Key Features:
√ Full iPhone 6 & 6 Plus Support!
√ Single tap music streaming
√ Search for artist, DJ, song, remix or cover
√ Sort by name, type, size, date
√ iPod-Like music playlists
√ Full featured media player
√ Create & manage playlists
√ Equalizer with BassBooster
√ Lock screen playback controls
√ Background music playback

Download Free Music Play

Bizarre Holiday Calendar

Normally $0.99.

Featured in USA Today’s “Strange but useful iPhone apps.” Free for a very limited time! If you enjoy the app leave us a review.

This app has been and will continue to be updated every year (since 2009). Each update is free, so you will have endless bizarre holidays. You can also quickly read and access this from the Today Notifications as a widget in iOS 8 or later.

“Bizarre Holidays presents you with wacky holidays each day. You’ll find silly holidays like Blame Someone Else Day and Dance Like a Chicken Day. Use it to have a little fun or plan fun parties for friends and family. It is updated yearly.” – USA Today

Have a party every day of the year! This list of random holidays gives you a reason to celebrate 365 days in a row. Celebrate food, famous folks, or your own bad attitude with fun favorites like Fried Chicken Day, Amelia Earnhart Day, and Blame Someone Else Day. Or get really bizarre with Dance Like a Chicken Day or Sneak Some Zucchini onto Your Neighbor’s Porch Night! See just one zany holiday per day or look ahead with the calendar feature to plan your upcoming celebrations. Many days of the year even have more than one random holiday for you to enjoy! You also get to enjoy one unique background image for each day of the week, so check daily to see the new background image.

Download Bizarre Holiday Calendar

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